Healing Chronic Inflammation

Herbal & Nutritional Support for Immune Balance

Saturday, February 28 9:30 AM - 3 PM

RiverSong Farm, Saxapahaw NC

Cost: $120 + $8 materials fee

Learn how to support your body’s intelligent immune system and quench inflammation when it flares.

Chronic inflammation can be the driver behind many of our most common ailments: joint pain, headaches, digestive concerns, skin conditions, anxiety/depression and more.

We also know that most of the diseases Americans will face as we age are “inflammaging,” or inflammatory in nature: dementia, type II diabetes, osteoarthritis, heart disease and atherosclerosis. 

Holistic healing approaches like herbalism recognize that inflammation is not the enemy but an innate immune system response that sometimes grows past our body’s ability to contain it. With optimum nutrition, appropriate herbs, and a little understanding, we can begin to put a break on this natural fiery process when it spreads too far, too fast. 

In this experiential workshop, you’ll learn some immune system basics that help you better understand inflammation and how you can calm it down with herbs and nutrition.

We’ll explore how food sensitivities—one of the most common and overlooked contributors to chronic inflammation—affect immune health and overall vitality.

We will talk about the role of the gut microbiome and ways to nourish it.

And you’ll be introduced to some of our most beloved and powerful anti-inflammatory herbs, plants that have been used for centuries to soothe inflammation, ease pain, and support immune resilience. 

As part of the workshop, you’ll create an herbal tea blend—your own daily “fire extinguisher”—to cool inflammation and nourish the immune system. 

In this class, we will keep things simple and experiential, tasting and experiencing the magic of the plants as we go.  So we can learn in a positive, embodied and fun way.

You’ll leave with:

    •    A holistic understanding of inflammation and how to work with it

    •   Ways to begin working with food sensitivities

    •    An intro to some amazing anti-inflammatory & immune balancing plants

    •    An herbal tea blend to take home and enjoy daily

This workshop is for anyone seeking a grounded, compassionate and embodied approach to healing through working with plant medicine — one that invites you to listen to your body’s innate wisdom and deeply nourish your wellbeing from the inside out.

Limited space! Past workshops have sold out, so register early:

🌱🌿 To register: email lea@greenheartnc.com 🌿🌱

About the Instructor

Lea Clayton, LMBT, BCPP is a clinical herbalist, an NC licensed massage & bodywork therapist & a board certified Polarity Therapist (LMBT#5134, BCPP.) She has been in bodywork practice since 2004 & clinical herb practice since 2018. She began her herbalism education in 2003 as an apprentice to local wise woman herbalist Suki Roth and has completed a 4-year clinical herbal training with David Winston, Registered Herbalist AHG.

As an herbalist she both consults individually and offers group classes in botanical medicine.  She grows and wildcrafts herbs, makes medicine and maintains a small (but awesome!) herbal dispensary at RiverSong Farm, her home in Saxapahaw.